With music packaging going the way of the Victrola and eight-tracks, it is never to late to document how graphic designers contributed to the look of music. And how music has long influenced graphic design. The current special issue of EYE magazine (#76) is almost entirely devoted to music - and its an important document to have and hold.
Editor John L. Walters, who is also a music critic for The Guardian, uses this issue to revel in the legacy, present and future of music design. He writes:
Over the years we have published many articles about design for music, but this is Eye’s first-ever special issue on this dynamic and continually inspiring sector. Designers are in a privileged position to add visual drama to music; to make it more understandable and enjoyable; to communicate the intangible essence of vibrating air molecules into the worlds of words, images and moving graphics. Design can make music look good, but when they really work together you have magic.
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